On Monday, his wife of more than 40 years, Jane Angvik, reflected on his life and legacy and discussed how growing up as a young man in Nazi Germany and Russia shaped the man he would become.
“He likes red. So when Vic was 80, he picked up a paintbrush. So the challenge to you and to me is when we turn 80, we have to go and do something new that is way outside our comfort zone,” Angvik said.
But long before experiencing the delight of painting beautiful pictures of Alaska, Fischer experienced the horrors of Germany and Russia during the height of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. “So he doesn’t believe the government has the right to murder its citizens, and having watched Stalin murder millions of people, having watched Hitler eliminate thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, he just said, ‘We can’t do that,’” Angvik said.
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